World Tokens

Barbados, ST JAMES, Sir Philip Gibbes, uniface Trial for the obv. of a Penny by J. Milton [1788], negro head left, edge plain, 33mm, 13.50g (Lyall 64, this coin illustrated; Trudgen obv. 1; Prid. –). Minor spotting and fields a trifle porous, otherwise extremely fine; UNIQUE £400-600

Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-14 June 1975, lot 40; R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 373.

Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Bt (1731-1815), a wealthy plantation owner at Springhead, studied law in England before succeeding to the family sugar estates founded by his great-grandfather, Philip Gibbes (†1648), who had emigrated from England to Barbados c. 1635